John Sheppard v. John Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 260 · 1848
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1987
5 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Simms and Wise v. Slacum
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a settled principle that no hill of exceptions is valid which is not for matter excepted to at the trial. We do not mean to say that it is necessary (and, in point of practice, we know it to he otherwise) that the hill of exceptions should be formally drawn and signed, before the trial is at an end. It will be sufficient if the exceptions be taken at the trial, and noted by the court, with the requisite certainty; and it may afterwards, during the term, according to the rules of the court, be reduced to form and signed by the judge; and so, in fact, is the general practice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Garber
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.